Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

36Allocation of business to specialist judiciaryS
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(1)Subsection (2) applies where the Lord President of the Court of Session or the sheriff principal of a sheriffdom is exercising any function relating to the allocation of business among the judiciary of a sheriffdom.

(2)The Lord President or, as the case may be, the sheriff principal must have regard to the desirability of ensuring that cases falling within a category determined under section 34 are dealt with by sheriffs, summary sheriffs, part-time sheriffs or, as the case may be, part-time summary sheriffs designated under section 35 as specialists in that category of case.

Commencement Information

I1S. 36 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), Sch.